The heavy flood that occurred on October 2 in Ky Son District brought soil, rocks, mud, and many trees and even logs from the mountains upstream above the Nam Mo River.
Many local people have come to the river to collect the wood.
A local man, La Van, said that he together with two other neighbours arrived and collected three large logs from the river.
"Timber is usually seen drifting on the river after large floods," he said. "We’ll use them to rebuild our houses which the flood washed away."
Chairman of Chieu Luu Commune People's Committee, La Duc Thoai, confirmed that local residents had collected lots of timber from the river after the flooding receded.
"The trees were washed down here from Laos and some surrounding upstream forests," the official said. "The wood might have been left from recent illegal logging. A lot of them had diameters of around 50-60cm. We've kept the valuable wood to investigate their origin."
